Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Tate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 14, 1981No. 392PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROBERTS, Justice.
On March 27, 1976, appellants were arrested on the campus of Muhlenberg College and charged with the summary offense of defiant trespass, 18 Pa.C.S. § 3508(b), when they refused to discontinue the peaceful distribution of leaflets outside a college building in which Clarence Kelley, then Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was speaking at a public symposium on crime prevention. Appellants were convicted at a magistrate’s hearing on August 11,1976, and fined $25.00 each plus court costs. They appealed their convictions to the Court of Common…
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3Cited by109 opinions
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